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        "title": "Male Head, possibly a Yaksha",
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                    "title": "Year in Review for 1986",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review for 1986</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).",
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